Cecilia Fåhraeus
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (leave of absence) at Kulturgeografiska institutionen
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 25 39
- E-mail:
- cecilia.fahraeus@kultgeog.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Campus Gotland, Cramérgatan 3
621 57 Visby - Postal address:
- Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
621 67 Visby - Leave of absence:
- 2024-02-01 - 2026-01-31
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Short presentation
Cecilia Fåhraeus is a senior lecturer and PhD in human geography. Her research interests revolve around slums and urban transformation in the global South, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, and the geography of livelihood activities among low-income communities.
She primarily teaches on the bachelor's programme in spatial planning at Campus Gotland.
Biography
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Research
Ongoing research projects:
Developing rights-based housing in Southern Africa. (2022-2023). This project is a research and collaboration project with Swedish NGO Weeffect, funded by UU Innovation Office. It entails formulating a rights-based, evidence-based and socially sustainable housing programme for Weeffects Southern Africa Office (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe).
Dealing with double disaster: The impact of natural disaster and Covid-19 on livelihoods and livelihood geographies in Palu, Indonesia. (2023). This project evaluates how the 2018 earthquake and subsequent tsunami and liquefaction in Palu have affected the livelihood strategies of low-income households in the affected region, with a particular focus on the spatial design of livelihood strategeis. Funded by SSAG and Helge Ax:on Jonssons stiftelse.
